Gene Weingarten: A three-pronged plan to make peace with a Trump presidency

[ehrnst]

…...My point is, we need to accept the results as legitimate. Think of the election as a game of Scrabble. You played your brains out, using sophisticated words like “syllogism,” but you lost by a point to a near illiterate who had memorized a list of all the stupid 2-letter words that are technically allowed, like “xu,” which is a Vietnamese monetary unit, and “za,” which means, apparently, somewhere, pizza. The guy got more points than you, and he won fair and square, even though he is sitting there at the table picking his nose with a chopstick.

Prong Two

Lose the nicknames. It has been tempting for people like me to attempt to diminish the president-elect by giving him amusing titles, such as Cheeto Benito, Mein Trumpf, T-Rump and The Angry Creamsicle. Well, in 19 days the man is going to be the president of the United States, and the office deserves more dignity. That is why I am specifically recommending that we come up with no new nicknames, such as The Rancid Cantaloupe, Tweety Bird, Sniffleupagus, and definitely not BLOATUS.


Prong Three

This is the important one. We have to give the man a chance. It’s not only fair, but it’s pragmatic. Observers agree that there is a distinct possibility that Trump meant virtually nothing that he said during a campaign that was drowning in demagoguery, xenophobia and sexism, and that attracted ardent support from white supremacists.
When faced with the actual responsibility of running the country, it is entirely possible he will become a completely different person, jettisoning virtually all of the positions of his campaign, reneging on every single noxious position he took, unmoored from ideologies he enthusiastically embraced, turning into a reasonable custodian of the ship of state. In other words, perhaps the incoming president of the United States is a great big liar, a conscienceless opportunist and an unprincipled, amoral, convictionless fraud. We can only pray!

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[Trust Buster]

1. Sorry, I have a minimum level of humanity that I refuse to suspend for anyone. No dice.

[ehrnst]

2. You do know that this is a humor column, right? (nt)

[Trust Buster]

3. Sorry, I didn't. I see no humor in Trump's brand of hate mongering.

[still_one]

7. I agree with you

[lapfog_1]

5. 4 years of not only no action on global climate change

but actively de-funding even studies about climate change and firing scientists who study it...

sorry, I don't find this funny.

Never mind the 1001 other things like killing medicare and social security and the ACA not to mention aligning with a dictator in Russia, etc.

None of this is funny. Making fun of it isn't funny. It might have been funny a few months ago... but reality is about to set in. People are going to die because of this idiot. Lots of people.

[smirkymonkey]

4. No. We will never make peace with a Trump presidency.

We will not be satisfied until he is impeached.

[Trust Buster]

8. I strongly disagree with this sentiment. The Republican Party willingly supported a mad man who

drummed up nationwide hatred to win the White House. Now, the Republicans would love to bait and switch Trump for Pence. We must now see the Republican OWN this disgrace Trump FOR EVERY BLESSED DAY of these next four years. Why on earth should we let them off the hook by replacing him Trump with a more sophisticated and less transparent creep ?

[smirkymonkey]

10. I agree with you to an extent. I despise Pence and everything he stands for.

However, I don't think he could be possibly as disastrous as Trump.

[Trust Buster]

11. The American people refuse to wake up. Perhaps the disaster that is Trump is the only cure.

[still_one]

6. I am assuming this is sarcasm, because if it isn't, Mr. Weingarten has some real issues

A lot in the media are carrying water for trump, and seem to kind of brush aside Mr. Trump's racist, sexist, and xenophobic platform, which he made very clear not only during his campaign, but by the people he wants on his team such as Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Tom Price, Jeff Session, Betsy DeVos, Rex Tillerson, etc.

If this isn't satire, then I need to ask what has Mr. Weingarten been smoking?

I also cannot find any humor in this situation. A lot of people are going to be hurt before this is over.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. No way.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. KY, Chapstick and buckets full of nonsequential $100 bills.